Regex To Match Words That Start With A Specific Character

A regular expression to match all words that start with a specific character (e.g. #, @, etc) in a string.

Note that don’t forget to replace the P in the regex with your own character.

/(?<!\w)P\w+/g

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Matches:

• Prefix
• Pattern
• Putty

Non-matches:

• prefix
• patternP
• 12345

See Also:

• Regex To Match A line That Doesn’t Contain A Specific Word
• Regex To Match A String That Doesn’t End With Given Suffix
• Regex To Match A String That Doesn’t Start With Given Prefix
• Regex To Check If A String Starts And Ends With An Alphabetic Character